Today, Joseph W Lisenby Elementary & Harry N Mixon Elementary School students filled the Harry N Mixon Elementary School Gymnasium. After finishing 10 weeks in the Super Citizen Program, they are gathered to celebrate their accomplishments and honor local heroes from the stage.
These students have learned their important roles in America’s future thanks to an immersive experience in civics, character, financial literacy and social studies. And in the closing piece of the program, Torch Teams (or “Helping Hands” for the younger students), students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world. They chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas & Liberty Pins. They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the Torch Teams & Helping Hands Heroes honored today in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the Dale County Community Alliance. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.
Were you at the event? See the photo gallery below to find yourself, to revisit the magic or watch it unfold for the first time >
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- Bobby & Patricia lead their classmates in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Ryleigh & Bryson share why Lisenby Assistant Principal Kristen Cruit is chosen as a Helping Hands Hero.
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- Gloria McDaniel is chosen as a Torch Team Hero by Ms. Campbell’s class and Kensley tells us all about her.
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- Ana and her friends in Ms. Coker’s class chose her dad William Bonner as a Torch Team Hero
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- Mark McCroskey is chosen as a Torch Team Hero by his daughter Hartlie and her friends in Ms. Hendren’s class
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- Ms. Johnson’s class chose Julie McDaniel as a Torch Team Hero and Lydia tells everyone why!
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- Cameron, Lily, & their friends in Ms. Mills’s class chose Kaite Hammock as a Torch Team Hero.
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- Ozark Deputy Chief Michael Bryan is chosen as a Torch Team Hero by his son Hunter and his friend Keziah and their friends in Ms. Rabren’s class
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- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
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- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
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- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
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- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
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- The students and heroes filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
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- U.S.A.!
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- Ozark City Schools Helping Hands and Torch Team Heroes!